Articles Published in 2012

BioSeek awarded new 5-year contract from EPA ToxCast program

Friday, October 5, 2012 08:00 AM

BioSeek, a drug discovery services company based in San Francisco, has been awarded a significant new contract extending and expanding the company's collaboration with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the EPA ToxCast screening program. 

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Takeda, Advinus initiated multi-year drugs discovery collaboration

Thursday, October 4, 2012 02:19 PM

Takeda Pharmaceutical, a Japanese research-based pharmaceutical company, and Advinus Therapeutics, a privately held research-based pharmaceutical company based in India, have entered into an agreement to initiate a three-year discovery collaboration focused on novel targets for major therapeutic areas, including inflammation, CNS and metabolic diseases.

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Risk gene for Alzheimer's disease associated with lower brain amyloid

Thursday, October 4, 2012 12:57 PM

Researchers investigating a known gene risk factor for Alzheimer's disease discovered it is associated with lower levels of beta amyloid—a brain protein involved in Alzheimer's—in cognitively healthy older people.

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Y-Prime, Veeva partner on cloud-based enterprise content management transformation

Thursday, October 4, 2012 12:35 PM

Y-Prime, an enterprise consulting and eClinical products company based in Malvern, Penn., has established a systems integration partnership with Veeva Systems, a global cloud-based business solutions company based in Pleasanton, Calif.

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PTC Therapeutics appoints Zeldis to board of directors

Thursday, October 4, 2012 12:14 PM

PTC Therapeutics, a biopharmaceutical company based in South Plainfield, N.J., has appointed Jerome B. Zeldis, M.D., Ph.D., to the company's board of directors.

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Epizyme earns $4M in milestones from GSK for novel HMT therapeutics

Thursday, October 4, 2012 11:52 AM

Epizyme, a pharmaceutical company focused personalized therapeutics for cancer, received a $4 million milestone payments from collaborator GlaxoSmithKline based on the achievement of pre-clinical milestones.

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Theravance, Alfa Wassermann to develop and commercialize velusetrag for gastroparesis

Thursday, October 4, 2012 11:28 AM

Theravance, a biopharmaceutical company based in San Franciso, and Alfa Wassermann, a pharmaceutical company based on West Caldwell, N.J., have entered into an exclusive development and commercialization agreement in certain countries for velusetrag, Theravance's investigational 5-HT4 agonist in development for gastrointestinal motility disorders.

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VentiRx, Celgene collaborate on novel TLR8 agonist VTX-2337 for cancer

Thursday, October 4, 2012 11:03 AM

VentiRx Pharmaceuticals, a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company focused on novel Toll-like receptor 8 (TLR8) agonists and antagonists, has formed an exclusive, world-wide collaboration with Celgene, an integrated global biopharmaceutical company, for the development of VTX-2337, a highly potent and selective TLR8 agonist for the treatment of cancer.

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BMS, Sanofi restructure alliance agreement

Thursday, October 4, 2012 10:36 AM

Global biopharmaceutical company Bristol-Myers Squibb and global healthcare company Sanofi have restructured their successful long-term alliance following the loss of exclusivity of Plavix and Avapro/Avalide in many major markets.

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Sanofi to acquire Genfar

Thursday, October 4, 2012 10:04 AM

Global healthcare company Sanofi has signed an agreement to acquire Genfar, a pharmaceuticals manufacturer headquartered in Bogota, Colombia. With this acquisition, Sanofi will expand its portfolio of affordable pharmaceuticals in Latin America.

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